Wikipedia's article on haibutsu kishaku, community-edited. Reliable for the movement's trigger, the Meiji government's 1868 policy separating Shinto from Buddhism, shinbutsu bunri, and for the scale of destruction, an estimated 40,000 Buddhist temples destroyed nationwide; the article itself is explicit that the split between an early phase (1868 to 1872) and a later, better documented phase (1872 to 1874, 18,000 temples) is uncertain, stating the earlier phase's toll only as "maybe as many again" as the later one, a hedge this atlas carries forward rather than resolves.
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Citation
AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haibutsu_kishaku
Source Typereference
Assessment
Reliability Tier3
Community-edited reference page, tier 3. Used for the 1868 trigger and the destruction estimate; the article's own hedge on the 1868-1872 phase's toll ("maybe as many again") is carried into the spread event's own dating note rather than resolved into a false precision. NotesUsed for the Meiji-era persecution of Buddhism in Japan, 1868 to 1874.
Claims Backed By This Source (30 claims)
This source backs 30 claims across the atlas. As facts: 20 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 2 holds, 4 connected. Plus 3 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Religious Events, 9 claims: 5 well-attested, 3 connected, 1 general references.
- Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
- Spread Events, 7 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 2 holds, 1 general references.
- Articles, 6 claims: 4 well-attested, 1 connected, 1 general references.
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